Excellent to hear.

Carl

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote:

> I sure have.  I've run it to transfer between environments and as a
> cron.  It will be running nightly for me from now on.
>
> Jason
>
> On May 10, 7:43 pm, Carl Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That looks pretty helpful. Have you tested it with any production
> datasets
> > yet?
> >
> > Carl
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Just wanted to let you guys/girls know that I've created a project up
> > > on github with backup and restore tasks using pg_dump.  I've wanted
> > > this for a long time, and I figured some of you might too.  I've seen
> > > a lot of backup solutions (which I've borrowed heavily from), but very
> > > few restores!  I could just imagine scrambling to restore the
> > > database, having not tested it before.
> >
> > > Anyway, hope some people get some use out of this.
> >
> > >http://github.com/jpearl/heroku_backups
> >
> > > From the readme:
> >
> > > These rake tasks are basically a cleaned up and consolidated version
> > > of everything good I could find related to backup of heroku
> > > databases.  It essentially takes advantage of pg_dump and pg_restore
> > > capailities of postgres.
> >
> > > You can use it to run a nightly backup cron, or to transfer between
> > > environments.
> >
> > > heroku rake db:backup --app from_application
> > > heroku rake db:restore -app to_application
> >
> > > Notes:
> > > * You'll need to place your backup bucket name where it indicates in
> > > database.rake
> > > * You will need aws_s3 and yaml_db, since we're dumping both a
> > > database agnostic yaml file and a pg_dump compressed
> > > backup
> >
> > > Things that could be done:
> > > * Most of you may not care about the yaml_db portion.  I like it
> > > because I use mysql locally, even though I'm running on postgres at
> > > Heroku.  You could easily rip this part out.
> >
> > > Hope this helps some folks.
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